UK Security Manager – Foreign Commonwealth And Development Office Glasgow

Overview

Position Title: UK Security Manager

Company: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Location: Glasgow, UK

Job Description:

This role ensures that the UK Security Team delivers the day-to-day security requirements across the UK estate and effectively manages all risks to buildings, staff, information and assets. This is achieved through deployment and integration of both technical and physical security equipment through appropriately skilled staff and procedures.The successful candidate will be responsible and accountable for leading the UK Security Team in ensuring the FCDO’s day-to-day business is conducted in a safe and secure environment. They will also be responsible for setting the security standards, requirements, policies and operational requirements in line with current Cabinet Office Government Security Framework , whilst ensuring they conform to relevant UK legislation.

Responsibilities:

• Contributing to regular and ad hoc reports on the programme portfolio to the FCDO Investment and Delivery Committee and other corporate governance boards.
• Co-ordinating frequent monitoring and reporting of the FCDO Major Programmes Portfolio and relevant programmes in the Government Major Projects Portfolio.
• Drafting or providing input into responses to related Parliamentary Questions (PQs) and Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.

Requirements:

• Supporting development of the Aid Management Platform (AMP) and digital systems including the new FCDO finance system (Hera) roll-out.
• Curation of relevant data and management information ensuring core reports are up to date, accessible, clearly understood and effectively used by the organisation to support their programme delivery.
• Contributing to wider CfD activities to improve the way the FCDO manages and uses information on policy programmes, and their contribution to wider policy delivery.
• Contributing to effective CfD management through the provision of administrative support to CfD senior leadership team and wider department.
• Occasional travel to UK offices.A

Benefits:

• Experience of managing and summarising numerical and narrative information, including through use of Microsoft Office tools (e.g. Excel).
• Ability to present information (in written or graphical form) in a clear and accessible way.
• Aptitude to identify, understand and make use of digital tools to improve the way we work and what we deliver, to support wider organisational change.